Curt Gordon

Biography

For the past 25 years Curt Gordon has been involved in land planning and real estate development. He was born in 1959, the son of a Utah artist Royce Gordon. He grew up between the San Francisco Bay Area and Cache Valley. He served a two year mission for the LDS church in Toronto Canada, and married his high school sweetheart, Brenda Nelson. Curt attended Utah State University, where he obtained a B.S. in Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, and is a recipient of the Morris Travel Fellowship.

With school behind him, he embarked on a successful career as a land planning consultant in Park City. He later went to work for the Silicone Valley defense contractor Lockheed Martin as a site development manager where engaged in project management and commercial real estate development.

By the late 1990’s Utah beckoned. He moved from California back to Cache Valley working as a city manager for several years. Leveraging his experience in the areas of development and government administration, he went to work for the State of Utah and was responsible for the planning and development of the States’ high value real estate holdings. Several years ago he accepted a position as the CEO of a private development company developing master planned communities in St. George where he works today.